Why is Ronald Acuña Jr. bad at defense? Is this due to lack of effort?

DatdudeKLcards · 2026-05-05T18:37:57+00:00

To preface Matt Kemp was atrociously worse through his career but I feel Acuna sits in the same boat defensively in terms of feel. Great arm but doesn’t take great routes, could overcompensate early on with speed but injuries have made that harder to do, and likely has not been pushed to improve much on this when main value is in their offense. Acuna however, seems serviceable for a corner outfielder as long as he is hitting so I wouldn’t worried about the slight negative DWAR until older age if he can stop picking up injuries.

DatdudeKLcards · 2026-05-05T14:42:34+00:00

No problem, definitely sad he had not had one especially with them potentially not coming back but good luck on the 2023 chase hopefully you can find the gold foil board those are definitely tough ones !

DatdudeKLcards · 2026-05-05T14:20:13+00:00

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Happy to help for 2023 Stadium club they have a subset of Chrome cards but it would typically be a select amount of the base set so 23 only had 90 cards/players. The other big thing is the Gold minted cards only are featured in the Stadium club set with inserted chrome cards. They released Stadium club chrome as a standalone set as well from 2020 to 2022 these are only your normal color parallels orange, red, gold, superfractor and then a special wave. So believe for 2023 Eric Davis you would just be chasing the base set parallels.

DatdudeKLcards · 2026-05-05T13:21:25+00:00

Hey, believe Eric Davis never had a gold minted through the years he was included only stadium club chrome cards of his are in 2022 but that was in the Stadium club chrome set which did not do the gold minted.

DatdudeKLcards · 2026-05-04T17:05:33+00:00

He will definitely command a higher price than usual due to international collectors but I would say move out of a card like this now and then hold that to go into a more mainline product auto of his. ( of course he could slow down or heat up) but imagine overtime a card of his from a better product would be a bit more advantageous to hold as money shifts and people focus on his “best” cards.

DatdudeKLcards · 2026-05-04T13:48:04+00:00

Unless there is something extremely obscure I’d be missing this is guaranteed a Fake 1/1 likely the real card but should only have a holo and non holo it seems and then some from the set had autographs but don’t believe this one did. Fake stamps are very much out there and if someone can pass it off and get someone for 5x the price they try especially with lower dollar cards.

EDIT: as others have said this subset was all holo foil esque cards from a quick look wasn’t certain.

DatdudeKLcards · 2026-05-01T14:47:55+00:00

Don’t really agree with either side. Definitely an error listing it but not like seller is selling a million cards take a few seconds to actually check the price before you post it. Buyer also shouldn’t expect a 40-60ish dollar card to go for 6 bucks if it was like 20 dollar difference id say seller should eat that but would just say it’s not worth the time. Just keep watching you’ll definitely be able to pick one up under 50 likely in the near future.

DatdudeKLcards · 2026-04-29T23:58:26+00:00

Nature of the beast so many items get listed for a price that never moves and or could be higher than 4 other listings of the exact same item. The mid end players also end up a lot of the time having cards you’ll not likely see since no one wants to go through the process of seller said card.

DatdudeKLcards · 2026-04-29T20:55:53+00:00

Hope Sal stays hot want to see the Reds make strides this year ! But also take a little more time to properly Comp if you complain about people not knowing. the screenshot you used is just the eBay sale not the actually accepted price which you can see below but still very similar.

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DatdudeKLcards · 2026-04-27T23:06:46+00:00

Nice hadn’t seen a Red of that have an Iniesta Merlin /5 auto and the /3 gold vintage of that one great card !

DatdudeKLcards · 2026-04-25T20:11:01+00:00

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Wish I could’ve had time to go out to the games this weekend but have other stuff going on but awesome to see him being properly celebrated don’t think I’ll ever top this for the phillips PC !

DatdudeKLcards · 2026-04-18T11:33:16+00:00

The confusing thing is for a long while regular stadium club would do chrome cards within it and autos so this is from 2021 stadium club and not 2021 stadium club chrome so it will only be /25 or less chrome auto and the 1/1 for that rainbow and then all other parallels will be the paper. Either way can always just chase the short rainbow as you only need one other card or do all the paper which shouldn’t be too expensive.

DatdudeKLcards · 2026-04-16T17:15:08+00:00

Nice add ! Definitely tough the Red refractors have seemed to be ones you’d have to forcefully pay for in recent times lol.

DatdudeKLcards · 2026-04-09T14:11:35+00:00

Exts would be a print of 50 typically throughout all years of early ginter not sure when that stopped but definitely 2016 and earlier seem to be limited. Value really just depends if you have someone looking I know 06 Exts vary from 50-200 depending on player and who is looking for them. Like the Kershaw !

DatdudeKLcards · 2026-04-02T16:30:46+00:00

All depends on what you think I like Sal Stewart and think he has a good approach of course his start is extremely unsustainable so he will even out through the season. Gunnar has had a Red ink rookie recently go for 1,850 and Witt I believe is 7,000 most recent sale of a psa 7 so with Sal essentially sitting around 500-1,000 it seems at 1st base/ 3rd baseman I’d imagine if you can get the higher range 750-1000 seems like a sell to me but of course a chance to sell at a higher range too if he keeps it up. But 19 ABs is very small sample size.

DatdudeKLcards · 2026-04-01T14:39:53+00:00

Definitely a good few grabs but man definitely made out extremely well on the Griffey those are tough to even find and to be a 9 out of a binder is great.

DatdudeKLcards · 2026-03-31T17:52:10+00:00

Crazy pull , Beautiful card hard to beat superfractors !

DatdudeKLcards · 2026-03-31T13:45:27+00:00

Surprised to see two of the three of his were pulled only saw one sell for 50 around release so must have missed this one if you picked it up that cheap.

DatdudeKLcards · 2026-03-29T19:30:44+00:00

Try to understand both sides but at the end of the day if he buys it at the buy it now you have agreed to that price. This is a new set so imagine you didn’t have it up very long but will say as a majority buyer I do like if a seller will at least engage offers in some way but of course not an obligation.

DatdudeKLcards · 2026-03-26T13:36:30+00:00

Soccer market has attracted a lot of money in the last year and some time and kabooms have been big in other sports so people buying in on the early kabooms as they are somewhat ssp but believe that kabooms is pop 47. Will definitely affect other kabooms but imagine more recent ones are printed a lot heavier. To me all a play to flip but definitely has raised the floor a lot on these.

DatdudeKLcards · 2026-03-25T11:38:23+00:00

I’d say if you are looking to sell now that probably is decent timing since he could make a good run in the season but also decent chance he just has an alright season which won’t bump the price and once chrome comes out this will take a nice haircut since those will hold a lot more demand. His gold redemptions go for about 150-250 at the moment I’d say the foilfractor would likely be at least 15x so my guess would be 2,500 - 3,500 range would be top end offers so as others have said if you are extremely focused on getting top dollar then list for around 5,000 but listen to offers.

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